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Tryst Hospitality Joins IGLTA as Global Partner 

Tryst Hospitality has joined the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association (IGLTA) as its newest Global Partner and is now part of an esteemed network of destinations and brands committed to advancing LGBTQ+ travel worldwide. Tryst Hospitality, founded by entrepreneur and hotelier Tristan Schukraft (he/him), is redefining what it means to travel and celebrate as part of the LGBTQ+ community. With a growing portfolio that spans The Abbey Food & Bar in West Hollywood, The Tryst Hotels in Puerto Vallarta, Fire Island Pines, and San Juan, as well as DS Tequila in Chicago and upcoming locations in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Tryst has become […]

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NYC Sues Over $47M In Funds Cut Due To Trans Rights

ABC News reports: New York City schools sued federal education officials Thursday over a decision to discontinue $47 million in promised grants because of the schools’ guidelines supporting transgender students. City officials said the federal agency led by Education Secretary Linda McMahon cut funding without the required notice or hearing after deciding that policies letting transgender students play sports and use bathrooms matching their gender identity violate Title IX, which forbids discrimination based on sex in education. The Education Department, in a September letter, set a deadline for New York City Public Schools to change the policies or lose current and […]

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Meta’s New Anti-Bias Advisor Is Spreading MAGA Lies

The Guardian reports: A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests. Robby Starbuck, 36, of Nashville, was appointed in August as an adviser by Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other tech platforms – in an August lawsuit settlement. Since his appointment, Starbuck has baselessly claimed that individual shooters in the US were motivated by leftist ideology, described faith-based protest groups as communists, and without evidence tied Democratic lawmakers to murders. Starbuck has long pushed vaccine […]

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‘[He] Helped Me … Hate Myself’: Conversion Therapy Survivors Speak Out

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You don’t feel secure in your masculinity,” Sam Nieves remembers his licensed therapist telling him at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. “Go grab a Playboy and find a way to enjoy it,” the Mormon therapist told him. “He told me I can’t be straight if I don’t go fishing with my dad,” says Nieves, who was 20 at the time. “He told me I needed to play more sports, listen to country music, stuff like that. He told me something was wrong with me.” After these sessions, which lasted about a year and a half, Nieves started experiencing crippling […]

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How Meta’s New Rules Are Putting LGBTQ People in Danger

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Robby Starbuck has built his reputation by attacking LGBTQ inclusion. He’s created a documentary called “The War on Children,” where he promotes the debunked conspiracy theory that suggests pesticides are turning your kids gay. He’s argued that Democrats are pro-trans because they want to allow men to follow women and girls in bathrooms. And he’s said that it’s “grooming for adults to have kids carry trans flags at a soccer game.” But in the last year, Starbuck has become notorious as a key face of America’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) movement, leading boycott campaigns on social media. He’s successfully pressured corporations, including Tractor Supply, John Deere and Harley-Davidson, […]

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What is the ‘Gender Unicorn’ diagram and why are right-wingers so annoyed about it?

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Anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing activists are notorious for getting annoyed about almost anything, and the latest addition to the ever-growing list is the Gender Unicorn diagram.  Don’t believe that they’ll get annoyed about anything? Buckle up: we’ve got receipts.  In June, right-wingers hit out at a member of staff at Office for National Statisticsfor wearing a Pride flag badge, with one critic describing it as the “flag of transgender activism”. The year before, right-wing news outlets were left “outraged” by a trans artwork, funded by London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan, for London’s Trafalgar Square.  A Christmas advert featuring Black actress Adjoa Andoh as Mrs. Claus, that saw her […]

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Walking the tightrope: Being a queer therapist in a system built to erase us

Being a queer therapist often feels like walking a tightrope, balancing high above a circus built by a system that was never meant for people like me to perform. The rope is taut, the stakes are high, and below is a crowd that has, at times, cheered for me to fall. On other days, I am the ringmaster of my quiet revolution, shaping the show, choosing the music, and refusing to let the system dictate the script. In truth, I am always a bit of both; I move between survival and defiance, between navigating oppressive structures and reimagining them entirely. The mental health system, […]

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Six Former US Surgeons General: RFK Is A “Profound, Immediate, Unprecedented Danger To US Public Health”

From a Washington Post oped published today: As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican and Democratic president since George H.W. Bush, we have collectively spent decades in service as the Nation’s Doctor. We took two sacred oaths in our lifetimes: first, as physicians who swore to care for our patients and, second, as public servants who committed to protecting the health of all Americans. Today, in keeping with those oaths, we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation. Never […]

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Pennsylvania families fight Trump Justice Department subpoenas for their trans kids’ private medical records

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In Pennsylvania, two federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama are now at the center of a fight over whether the U.S. government can seize the private medical records of transgender youth. The battle, two legal cases unfolding in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, pits families and hospitals against the Department of Justice and raises fundamental questions about constitutional privacy, federal power, and the future of gender-affirming health care in the United States. The cases stem from a series of administrative subpoenas issued by the Justice Department this summer as part of the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against gender-affirming care. Families and their attorneys argue that the government is not attempting to root […]

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Trump administration to hold back grants from NYC, Chicago, Fairfax schools over trans bathroom policies

Three of the nation’s largest public school districts stand to lose $24 million after missing a Trump administration deadline to agree to change policies supporting transgender students, officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights had given New York City Schools, Chicago Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia until Tuesday to agree to stop giving students access to locker rooms and restrooms corresponding with their gender identity or risk losing funding for specialty magnet schools. In letters to the districts Sept. 16, the Education Department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, Craig Trainor, said […]

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